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Childhood & Growing Up
The emotional, imaginative, and developmental side of childhood, from early creativity to the years when kids begin becoming themselves.
- Jul 16, 2026 Two separate studies on color found a consistent pattern By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 A study combining a controlled experiment with three weeks of real-time text-message check-ins found that passively… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 An economics study that compared cognitive test scores across countries with very different retirement ages found that… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 16, 2026 Two large studies using objective wearable light sensors, one covering over 400,000 people and the other nearly 87,000… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A study that had people keep a weekly journal for nine weeks found the ones randomly assigned to simply write down what… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A survey of more than 7,000 adults found women rated a partner's age, education, income, and emotional trust… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A meta-analysis pooling 65 separate studies on unsecured personal debt found people carrying it had roughly triple the… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A study that followed 184 adolescents from age 13 to 23 found that the 'cool' kids who prioritized impressing their… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 Two separate lines of psychological research on people who quietly carry a lot found the same pattern By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 15, 2026 A study that had long-term couples try either a mundane task or a genuinely new, mildly thrilling one together, in the… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A foundational psychological theory of love identified three separate ingredients, intimacy, passion, and commitment… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A study of 168 dual-earner couples found that workaholism in one partner reliably predicted more conflict between work… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A now-classic study comparing how people feel about their past purchases found that money spent on experiences produced… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 The same large-scale international research that pinpointed a happiness low point around age 47 also found something… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 A randomized trial of 126 smokers trying to quit found that treating a slip-up with self-compassion, rather than… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Jul 14, 2026 Researchers who videotaped strangers meeting for the first time found that people who scored high in trait curiosity… By The Artful Age Editorial Team